jonlubi

Most recent activity

• wtd: babyzen yoyo+ or yoyo2

  in Wanted Adverts • 1 week, 1 day

  

  In the extraordinarily unlikely even that anyone needs a rain cover for the bassinet version, I have one practically new - purchased in error but used a few times before I realised that my baby-addled brain had bought the wrong one.

• Wanted: 60cm steel frameset

  in Wanted Adverts • 2 weeks, 6 days

  

  I've got a Condor Tempo f+f that I'm looking to shift. Can probably add in a few other bits apart from wheels too.

  58cm frame, with a TT of 57cm (horizontal equivalent).

  I'm 6'3" and it suits me very well. I had a Condor Pista before this in the same size, and was fitted for it in the shop.

  I'll dig out a photo if you are interested?

• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  Not the first to suggest this...

  First Slough

  Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
  It isn't fit for humans now,
  There isn't grass to graze a cow.
  Swarm over, Death!
  Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
  Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
  Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
  Tinned minds, tinned breath.

  Mess up the mess they call a town-
  A house for ninety-seven down
  And once a week a half a crown
  For twenty years.

  And get that man with double chin
  Who'll always cheat and always win,
  Who washes his repulsive skin
  In women's tears:

  And smash his desk of polished oak
  And smash his hands so used to stroke
  And stop his boring dirty joke
  And make him yell.

  But spare the bald young clerks who add
  The profits of the stinking cad;
  It's not their fault that they are mad,
  They've tasted Hell.

  It's not their fault they do not know
  The birdsong from the radio,
  It's not their fault they often go
  To Maidenhead

  And talk of sport and makes of cars
  In various bogus-Tudor bars
  And daren't look up and see the stars
  But belch instead.

  In labour-saving homes, with care
  Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
  And dry it in synthetic air
  And paint their nails.

  Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
  To get it ready for the plough.
  The cabbages are coming now;
  The earth exhales.

  (John Betjeman)

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  Tasty. That said, while I dearly love my HFM, if I was spending that much on a watch I'd like something other than comic sans for the numerals.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  I'd pop one of these on it and call it a day:
  https://www.watchobsession.co.uk/collect­ions/rios1931-watch-straps/products/rios­1931-mittenwald-retro-organic-leather-wa­tch-strap-in-black

  Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for something similar for a while. I bought it shortly after, then got a call from WO saying they noticed my delivery address is in the same town as them (Aberystwyth), and offering to drop it round directly. From reading your post to the hand-delivered parcel arriving was about 3 hours!

• WANTED - 62cm Surly Steamroller

  in Wanted Adverts • 1 month, 3 weeks

  

  No worries. Good luck with your search!

• WANTED - 62cm Surly Steamroller

  in Wanted Adverts • 1 month, 3 weeks

  

  Not exactly what you're looking for but sort-of similar, I have a 58cm Condor Tempo that I need to sell. Suits me well at 6'3".

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

  Any recommendations for getting a dial change? I love my Hamilton Field Mechanical in every way apart from the dial (not least the comic-sans-alike typeface). Seeing all the Seiko mods got me thinking that switching out a dial can't be that difficult to arrange. Absolutely no intention of doing it myself, but I assume there must be some people out there that offer this service?

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months

  

  I loved the NATO that came with my Hamilton FM so much that I've since bought two more from them for other watches. Obscenely priced at £45 each but I've never found a NATO elsewhere that is as comfortable or well made (or looks as good). The black / Orange is perfect for my Squale.
  I'm sure the ones you get with a new Omega / whatever are good but a bit above my pay grade...

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 months, 2 weeks

  

  Having a six bed house in Wales rewired now. Coming in circa £5.5K to £6K. Probably not far off what a London 4 bed would cost!